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Nappers story was good, like a evening of plentiful fine wine.
A below average issue, mainly due to the choice of stories that dont' really appeal to me. Nina Allan's story initially appeared out of place until near the end when its SF premise is revealed.- “Marielena” by Nina Allan: a mostly contemporary story about a political fugitive from another country who is waiting for asylum in Britain. In the midst of waiting, he encounters a homeless woman who seems to know the agony he faces over seeking asylum and 'abandoning' his country. When he later comes t...
Good stuff as usual from the IZ crew:The particular strength this time is Nina Allen's novelette, Marielena which is a timely and elegant story about loss and migration to new lives/worlds/times/etc. It's a sad read and less than complementary about the modern urban environment but it's full of lovely phrases and imagery and resonates with an understated hope. It actually pretends not to be SF until very near the end in fact (not that it matters) which serves the delicate pairing of isolation an...
Marielena - Nina Allan: um conto que começa por nos parecer uma história sentida sobre imigração com uma leve sugestão de sobrenatural. Um exilado político vindo dos sítios habituais no médio oriente deambula pelas ruas de uma Londres pouco acolhedora enquanto aguarda a confirmação do seu estatuto. Deambula e recorda quem ama e deixou no seu país longínquo, fazendo-nos intuir que é mais do que uma mulher, talvez um demónio das mitologias milenares do médio oriente incorporada num corpo feminino....
Great mixture as usual. Stand out stories include Marielena by Nina Allan and Dark on a Darkling a Earth by T R Napper.
I know this often happens to me; perhaps I am blessed – but this has just turned out to be the perfect coda to my ToTAl TTA experience in this review. A great story, in itself, with so many quotable sentences that tell striking truths, ones you feel have always been said, but now they have been said for the first time. As a coda, it conveys its woman protagonist not only as a regrouping parent with her today’s child (a daughter), the relationship with her estranged husband (the daughter’s father...
4.5 starsEvery story in this issues was excellent, and the articles and criticism up to the usual high standard.
Good stuff as usual from the IZ crew:The particular strength this time is Nina Allen's novelette, Marielena which is a timely and elegant story about loss and migration to new lives/worlds/times/etc. It's a sad read and less than complementary about the modern urban environment but it's full of lovely phrases and imagery and resonates with an understated hope. It actually pretends not to be SF until very near the end in fact (not that it matters) which serves the delicate pairing of isolation an...
Read Nina Allan's story 'Marielena'. At first I wasn't keen on this at all, and would have said it was the only Allan story I've actually disliked, but it does get better towards the end – enough to bump it up to 'good' status, but not 'good-for-Nina-Allan' status, which is of course much better than anyone else's 'good'. It's written in a markedly different style from most of Allan's fiction and possesses a kind of realist lyricism. It's told from the point of view of Noah, who comes to the UK
